An intelligence asset whose job was to blackmail the rich and powerful dies in his cell before he can testify when cameras stopped working and both guards fell asleep. Come on.
The "cameras stopped working" thing is not true, but often repeated. People really don't want to do their homework and just repeat what they've already heard elsewhere.
A letter filed by Assistant US Attorneys Jason Swergold and Maurene Comey said "the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located", New York City media report.
"The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors."
And from NPR:
After first reporting that the video had been preserved, prosecutors told the court that further investigation shows "the MCC inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier within the MCC."
As a result, the pertinent video "no longer exists," prosecutors wrote.
Are you saying this is untrue? Or is this an "akshually it was a data entry error not a malfunction" type of thing?
You sound quite certain here, how come?